Royal Ascot absentee Elite Status is set to make his competitive return in the Fidelity Energy Hackwood Stakes at Newbury on Saturday.

Karl Burke’s colt was considered a major contender for last month’s Commonwealth Cup having made an impressive start to his three-year-old campaign in the Carnarvon Stakes over the Hackwood course and distance in May, but he knocked a joint on the journey to Berkshire and was subsequently withdrawn.